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The former pitcher Steve Howe had methamphetamine in his system when he was killed as his pickup truck drifted off a desert highway, a coroner's autopsy showed. Howe, 48, died of injuries sustained in the April 28 single-vehicle crash on Interstate...

June 29, 2006, Thursday

Steve Howe, the relief pitcher whose promising career was derailed by cocaine and alcohol abuse, died yesterday when his pickup truck rolled over in Coachella, Calif., about 130 miles east of Los Angeles. He was 48. Howe had been in Arizona on...

Slightly more than 16 years apart, Steve Howe and Billy Martin, two troubled baseball souls whose most notorious times occurred with the Yankees, died in similar accidents while riding in their pickup trucks.

April 29, 2006, Saturday

A drunken driving charge against Steve Howe, the former Yankees relief pitcher, has been dropped after prosecutors in Kalispell, Mont., decided that his blood test was improperly obtained. City Attorney Glen Neier said prosecutors concluded they...

October 24, 1997, Friday

The former Yankees pitcher STEVE HOWE was charged with drunken driving yesterday in connection with the Aug. 19 motorcycle crash in which he was critically injured. Howe, 39, who lives near Whitefish, Mont., suffered collapsed lungs and a ruptured...

August 30, 1997, Saturday

The former Yankees pitcher STEVE HOWE, injured in a motorcycle crash this week near his Montana home, was hospitalized in stable condition yesterday in Helena, Mont. ''He was in I.C.U'' said SHERRIE HIGGINS, Kalispell Regional Hospital...

STEVE HOWE, whose career has been interrupted by seven drug- or alcohol-related suspensions, has agreed to a contract with the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Canaries of the independent Northern League. ''I think he wants to come back, prove he can pitch and...